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April 2004
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| Immigration Expertise Improves Foreign Faculty Recruitment, Retention Academic talent knows no national boundaries. Your top candidate for an open faculty position could very well be a foreign national, and you need to be prepared to handle his or her immigration issues. Being well-versed in immigration law, or having access to someone who is, will help the search committee assess a candidate’s chances of becoming eligible to live and work in the United States and aid your faculty recruitment and retention efforts by showing the candidate that your institution/department will help in the immigration process. |
| Dont Cancel That Class When University of Cincinnati faculty members leave campus to attend a conference or another scheduled event, they don’t have to cancel class. They can contact UC’s Wellness Center and arrange for wellness staff to come to class and conduct a session on a health topic of the faculty member’s choosing. |
| Transformative Assessment in Higher Education By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Driven by increasing public scrutiny, requirements from accrediting agencies, and a desire to attract more and better students and operate more efficiently, many colleges and universities are devoting more resources to assessment. |
| Evaluating the Sample Lesson: What to Look for in the Hiring Process By Thomas R. McDaniel, Ph.D. As one of my dean colleagues likes to say, “the most important decision in the tenure process is the hiring decision.” When hiring faculty for tenure-slot positions, most colleges schedule a sample lesson for the candidate, either in an existing course or with a group of volunteer students. Typically, members of the search committee, along with a dean and department chair, will sit in the back of the class to observe the teacher’s effectiveness. In most colleges where teaching effectiveness is a major faculty expectation, this sample lesson can make or break the candidate’s prospects for employment at the college. |
| Bulletin Board Connecting Academic and Student Affairs; Assessing Academic Programs in Higher Education; Faculty Online Workload Research Project Report; Leadership Through Collaboration; Putting College Costs into Context (2004); University and Community Research Partnerships |
| Department Chair Best Practices: Sailing in Stormy Seas: Navigating Departments Through Turbulent Times By Don Chu, Ph.D. Last month’s Best Practices column looked at department operations during tight budget times. This article continues with that theme and will help academic leaders prepare for turbulent times ahead. Most academics understand the importance of theory in our scholarly work. Theory helps us organize data so that we can understand what we need to do next. What theory is there that can help department chairs? |
| Resolving Minor Academic Integrity Violations To encourage faculty to address instances of student cheating, Duke University recently adopted a one-time faculty-student resolution for first-time offenses that, if forwarded to the judicial system, would likely result in a sanction less than suspension. |
